Article carrier and display device



Sept. 1, 1925. 1,552,206

J. BROCKLEY 7 ARTICLE CARRIER AND DISPLAY DEVICE Filed (av. 14, 1923 -nL W J i n J. .3

g .5 T I] .Hlinn i Jacob Brockic% Patented Sept. 1, 1925.

-- UNITED STATES PAT JACOB BROCKLEY, OF HAMPTON, VIRGINIA.

ARTICLE CARRIER AND DISPLAY DEVICE.

Application filed. November 14, 1923. Serial No. 674,712.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JACOB BROCKLEY, citizen of the United States,residing at Hampton, in the county of Elizabeth City and State ofVirginia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in ArticleCarriers and Display Devices, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an improved article carrier and display deviceof the general character disclosed in my pending application for asimilar invention filed October 18, 1922, Serial No. 595,330, and seeksto provide a device of this character capable of carrying a half dozenor more articles while, at the same time, the structural parts of thedevicewill be reduced to a minimum to thus facilitate manufacture whilereducing the cost to the user.

Gther and incidental objects will appear hereinafter.

In the drawings: I

Figure 1 is a top plan view of my 1mproved carrier, 7

Figure 2 is a side elevation of the device,

Figure 3 is an enlarged detail sectional view on the line 3-3 of Figure1, looking in the direction of the arrows, and

Figure 4 is a bottom plan view of a slightly modified construction.

In carrying the invention into effect, I employ an annular frame or ring10 which is preferably stamped from suitable resilient sheet metal andextending diametrically of the ring are crossed brace bars 11. Connectedat its lower end to the cross bars 11 at their point of intersection isa handle 12 terminating at its upper end in a finger loop 13, andmounted upon the ring is a plurality of article holders, the deviceshown embodyin six of said holders. As brought out in detail in Figure 3of the drawings, each of these holders comprises a pair of crossedsubstantially semicircular spring clamps lt deflected at their upperends, as indicated at 15, to facilitate the insertion of an articletherebetween, and mounting the clamps are legs 16, the several legs ofthe device depending beneath the ring 10 for supporting the carrier-upona table or other surface. Each of these legs is provided at its upperend with a reduced stud 17 defining a shoulder 18 and, as will beobserved, the stud is inserted through the ring 10 and through a pair ofclamps at their point of intersection so that the shoulder 18 thus abutsthe lower face of the ring while at its upper end, the stud is upset, asindicated at 19, for binding the clamps together. As exemplified inFigure 3, four of the legs 16 are disposed at the ends of the cross bars11 so that the studs of said legs extend through the extremities of saidbars. for also connecting the bars with the ring 10. Thus, the legs notonly serve as supporting elements but also serve as fastening devicesfor the clamps and cross bars and, in this connection, it should benoted that the device is well adapted for use in cooking operations inany instance where it would be desired to space the articles beingcooked from the bottom of a cooking vessel. As will be perceived,

the cross bars 11 not only serve to brace the ring 10 but also provide aconvenient means for mounting the handle 12 centrally of the ring whileby employing a ring to support the holders of the device a number ofholders are compactly accommodated upon a single part.

In Figure 4 of the drawings, I have illustrated a slight modification ofthe invention wherein I employ a stamped resilient sheet metal frameembodying concentric inner and outer rings 20 and 21 connected with eachother by intersecting ,diametric integral cross bars 22 which also serveto brace each of the rings. As in the prior embodiment of the invention,a handle 23 is connected to the cross bars at their point ofintersection and mounted upon each of the rings 20 and 21 is a number ofarticle holders, indicated as a whole at 24. These article holders areidentical with the article holders of the construction first describedand are mounted by legs 25 identical withsion device secured to saidcross bars at the intersection thereof and upstanding therefrom axiallyof the ring, pairs of coacting spring clamps mounted on the ring andproviding article carriers, corresponding clamps of said pairs of clampsbeing dis posed! radially with respect-to; said suspension device andopposite corresponding clamps of said pairs of clamps being arrangeddirectly above. and being disposed to lie substantially Within the linesof the inner and outer edges of said ring, and combined feet andfastening elements extending through the ring and through said pairs .ofclamps securing the clamps in position on the ring, said ring forming acontinu ous uninterrupted connection between the several pairs ofarticle carriers. v

2."In an article carrier, the combination or" a unitary .metal framecomprising inner andouter concentric ringsvconnected with eachcther byintegrally formed intersecting metal cross bars integral with the rings,

a suspension. device secured to and rising [from the cross, bars attheir point of interisectionaxially of the ring, circumierentiallyspaced'pairs ofspr ng clamps mounted on the lnner ring,circumferentially spaced pairs of spring clampsmounted on the outer ringin staggered relation to the pairs of clamps on the inner ring, saidpairs of clampsl formingarticle holders, one of the spring clamps ofeach pair on the inner and outer ringbeing disposed radially withrespect to the suspension device and the other spring 'clampof each pairbeing disposed directly above and arranged to lie substantially Withinthe lines of: the inner and outer edges of the adjacent ring, and

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